I have the late 2007 Macbook and would like to run a newer OS on it.
I would like to install 64 bit windows 7 / 8.1.
The guides I find online seems to always reference other Macs so I find myself piecing information together from them but its inconsistant to say the least.
I have thus far learnt that I have a 64Bit processor running a 32bit EFI (or UEFI).
Apparently, I can have the Mac boot into Legacy bios mode which will enable the install of a Windows, potentially 64bit nativly but need to figure out the steps involved in doing so.
I am completly aware that bootcamp will allow 32bit windows 7 but I would like to accept the painfull challenge of getting windows 7 64bit on it and hunting down drivers potentially trying out an 8.1 upgrade from 7.
I dont care about dual booting and using or not using bootcamp but would like it to be as close to a notive install as possible.
Brun got 7 64 working here but fails to mention if he had a 32 or 64bit EFI eitherway he used bootcamp so im guessing he had 64bit EFI https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2629094?tstart=0
Edit seems I was overthinking it. Vista source...http://superuser.com/questions/73965/remove-mac-os-x-and-install-windows
1 Insert Mac OS Lion Install Disc
2 Reboot holding down Alt/Option key and select the CD drive/Lion install disk
3 From the Utilities menu, select Disk Utility.
4 Select your hard drive from the list and then click the Partition tab / button.
5 Click the Options button and select “Master Boot Record” as the partition scheme. Click OK.
6 From the Volume Scheme drop down list, select 1 Partition. Select MS-DOS (FAT) for the format (not that this matters since you will reformat it using NTFS during the Vista install).
7 Click Apply.
8 Reboot holding down Alt/Option key.
9 When the graphical boot menu appears, hit the eject button. Take out the OS X Install Disc and put in your windows 7 install disc then select it.
10 Proceed through the windows 7 install. This is where my problems with drivers might start?
11 follow the normall process of installing windows to the partition created re-formatting to NTFS when warned
12 Once Windows is installed manualy install all the latest drivers extracting them from bootcamp software as per this. http://tsentas.net/bootcamp-x64-unsupported/
Can anyone see why this might not work?
Also, I'm told for most Mac if you get 7 64 running sweet the upgrade to 8/8.1 works fine.
I would like to install 64 bit windows 7 / 8.1.
The guides I find online seems to always reference other Macs so I find myself piecing information together from them but its inconsistant to say the least.
I have thus far learnt that I have a 64Bit processor running a 32bit EFI (or UEFI).
Apparently, I can have the Mac boot into Legacy bios mode which will enable the install of a Windows, potentially 64bit nativly but need to figure out the steps involved in doing so.
I am completly aware that bootcamp will allow 32bit windows 7 but I would like to accept the painfull challenge of getting windows 7 64bit on it and hunting down drivers potentially trying out an 8.1 upgrade from 7.
I dont care about dual booting and using or not using bootcamp but would like it to be as close to a notive install as possible.
Brun got 7 64 working here but fails to mention if he had a 32 or 64bit EFI eitherway he used bootcamp so im guessing he had 64bit EFI https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2629094?tstart=0
Edit seems I was overthinking it. Vista source...http://superuser.com/questions/73965/remove-mac-os-x-and-install-windows
1 Insert Mac OS Lion Install Disc
2 Reboot holding down Alt/Option key and select the CD drive/Lion install disk
3 From the Utilities menu, select Disk Utility.
4 Select your hard drive from the list and then click the Partition tab / button.
5 Click the Options button and select “Master Boot Record” as the partition scheme. Click OK.
6 From the Volume Scheme drop down list, select 1 Partition. Select MS-DOS (FAT) for the format (not that this matters since you will reformat it using NTFS during the Vista install).
7 Click Apply.
8 Reboot holding down Alt/Option key.
9 When the graphical boot menu appears, hit the eject button. Take out the OS X Install Disc and put in your windows 7 install disc then select it.
10 Proceed through the windows 7 install. This is where my problems with drivers might start?
11 follow the normall process of installing windows to the partition created re-formatting to NTFS when warned
12 Once Windows is installed manualy install all the latest drivers extracting them from bootcamp software as per this. http://tsentas.net/bootcamp-x64-unsupported/
Can anyone see why this might not work?
Also, I'm told for most Mac if you get 7 64 running sweet the upgrade to 8/8.1 works fine.
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